The locative was long known as "Head of Cow Neck." Matinnecock is noted in a survey for Lewis Morris, in 1685 : "A tract of land lying upon the north side of Long Island, within the township of Oyster Bay, in Queens County, and known by the name of Matinicock," and. in another survey : "A certain small neck of land at a place called Mattinicock." Extended also to an island and to an Indian clan. Cornelius van Tienhoven wrote in 1650:

^ " Missiachpitschik, Onond. Die.) those who are or live scattered." (Zeisberger's

*. Known also as " Martin Garretson's bay." Garretson was Schout (Sheriff), hence "Schout's bay." The neck of land "called by the Indians Sint-Sink," was fenced for the pasturage of cows, and became known as "Cow Neck," hence "Cow bay" and "Cow harbor," now Manhasset bay.. (See Matinnec'ock and Mochgonneck-onck.)

96 INDIAN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

"Martin Garritson's Bay, or Martinnehouck/ is mudli deeper and wider than Oyster Bay ; it runs westward in and divides into three rivers, two of wliidi are navigable. The smallest stream runs up in front of the Indian village called Martinnehouck, where they have their plantations. The tribe is not strong, and consists of about thirty families. In and about t'his bay were formerly great numbers of Indian plantations which now lie waste. On the rivers are numerous valleys of sweet and salt meadows." The name has, wit!h probable correctness, been interpreted from Metanak-ok (Lenape, Mctanak-onk; Abn., Metanak-ook), meaning, "Along the edge of the island," or, as Van Tienhoven wrote, "About this bay." The same name appears on the Delaware as that of what is now known as Burlington Island." It is corrupted in New Jersey to Tinnicum, and is preserved on Long Island as the name of a village in the town of Ovster Bay.